"Ilme"

The name of this well-known Kazakh kui comes from the finger technique used to perform it: the player hooks the strings with the fingers of the right hand by plucking up on them, rather than strumming down in the usual style of dombra performance. Aygul Ulkenbaeva is the musician. (During, Levin 2001)

The Silk Road: A Musical Caravan

Various Artists
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What if Marco Polo had owned a tape recorder? And what if his epic travels along the Silk Road had taken place not at the end of the 13th century, but at the beginning of the 21st? Far-fetched conjectures to be sure, but our compilation The Silk Road: A Musical Caravan offers a glimpse of the rich musical life that an intrepid and curious traveler like Marco Polo might find in the lands of the Silk Road today (During, Levin 2001).